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October 23, 2002
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Message from the Tech Team:
We recently suffered a major technical problem which delayed the
release of the latest materials
- we apologize for any inconvenience!
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Items
- 1 Indonesia Went Seno Project
- 2 OPIC / IIE Letter and Memorandum
- 3 Brochure on ECAs in Finnish
What's New:
1.  County
< Indonesia: West
Seno Begins Spreading Disaster for Community
"The West Seno Project, hailed by Unocal as bringing in revenues
of Rp 1 trillion for East Kalimantan in the future, has already
begun to spread disaster for the environment and community in and
around the Tangjung Santan shore, with an oil spill occurring at
the Ranggas 6 well, approximately 75 kilometers out into the Makassar
Strait..." [more]
2. Country
< US: OPIC/IIE
Letter and Memoradum
In August Environmental Defense and the AFL-CIO sent a letter and
detailed memorandum to Fred Bergsten, head of the Institute for
International Economics (IIE), cced to Peter Watson CEO of OPIC
and relevant Congressional committee chairmen, expressing concerns
about a study OPIC has commissioned IIE to do in anticipation of
presenting the study in Congressional hearings in the next Congress
on OPIC's reauthorization. The letter and dossier was sent on behalf
of eight other national environment and development groups, including
OXFAM America, Friends of the Earth, U.S., and Pacific Environment.
The letter and memorandum express concerns about the one-sided methodology
and approach of the study. Bruce Rich of Environmental Defense and
Thea Lee of the AFL-CIO were the only representatives of civil society
on a 30 person 'working group' that consisted mainly of OPIC's big
banking and corporate clients. [more]
Foreign Language Materials:
3. Introductory Brochure
on ECAs in Finnish
now available for download!
By The Finnish ECA Campaign
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